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Sounds good so far

 

I'll be offline for a week and a bit from tomorrow (unless I

wander into an internet cafe at some point in Prague or Boskovice )

so good luck with continuing your composition(s)!

 

Take care,

Mark

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no prob

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Changing Pokey to 15KHz mode affects all 4 voices.

 

The better alternative is to join 2 voices, which gives a wider range of notes available, and leaves 2 voices unaffected.

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Right on, thanks

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Alright check it out, When the bass sound plays(It's a 15KHZ instrument) it conflicts with the first rythmic instrument(The first one you hear when the song starts), it sounds to me like it makes the other instrument 15KHZ too as the sound kind of goes down an octave on it when the bass sound plays......Can anyone explain to me why this occurs? I'm curious:

Elite.zip

[Lynx Music question]

Thanks for the replies, I was just curious because I don't know anything about the lynx other than I had one back in the day.

[Who should I report this idiot to?]

Er....so a van pulls up to your house and some guys in black suits pick up the "goods" now or what?

[Musician Available(most of the time)]

Right on, I like the first 7 FF games and the first 2 Zelda's + Windwaker. I haven't played any FF after 7.

 

I've started the first Elite song and right off the bat I ran into some evil note-clash with that distorted bass sound that comes in but I've managed to work around it by using two different instruments to play the same part. I didn't get any of that with the Metroid song so I guess I got lucky with that one. Hopefully I'll have the first song done pretty soon, these things usually don't take me too long.

[Lynx Music question]

What kind of sound system did the lynx have? I can barely remember it but I do remember some of the games having some good tunes.

 

And how do you go about writing music on the thing? Anyone?

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I'll jump in quickly....

 

C64 'Elite' - both tunes - Main Theme and Blue Danube

 

And defnitely the battle tune from the NES game 'Final Fantasy IIIj'

(actually the instruments you used in Metroid sould OK for most of

the tunes in this game - and there's lots of 'em, mostly little ones

which get repeated continuously)

 

Regards,

Mark

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Sweet, it's a David Dunn soundtrack....I like his music. Just did Finders Keepers for someone not to long ago, also did Highnoon for my own remake a couple years ago(pretty sure he did that one.)

 

As for Armalyte, I like it the soundtrack...It's going to take some work to get a good sound outta Pokey for that one, since I'm new to the chip. Guess I got my work cut out for me guys.

 

BTW Wrathchild(Comin' to get you! Oooooh Yeaeeeeyeah!) What's the Final Fantasy battle tune gonna be used for? Just curious....

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No pain, no gain.

 

 

Nah, I like writing music for games but I'm already busy doing a lot of em and here I am volunteering more of my time away since I discovered Raster Tracker...so I want to make sure anyone that wants some music done is doing a serious project....ya know. It also helps if I'm actually interested in the game.....like Shinobi, Double Dragon, Dk Jr., Metroid, Skaterock, 720 Degrees, Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Super Pipeline II, Ghettoblaster, Spelunker etc.....those are my kinda games.

 

Can't remember Armalyte(Shooter right?) and I hate Elite but I'll still do the music, just gotta dig up the SID's and hear 'em out.

 

I'll post here again when I've got something.

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

And Jussts dude let's see some more of those mock-up graphics! You got me drooling everywhere

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I'm using Raster Tracker to do this stuff, so if that's going to cause a problem let me know before I get my hands dirty

 

Also, you guys are porting these games right? I hate re-writing music for nothing cause it's a pain in the ass.

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

And here's the RMT file so you can experiment with it, exported at $d000 like it says to do. So if that needs changed for the 2600 just let me know.

 

EDIT: Oh yeah, I think the Brinstar song down there still has the deleted channels notes and a drum track(It was 4 channels to begin with)....They still need to be deleted, so don't let the filesize shake you up

Brinstar_2_Track_RMT.zip

Chozo_RMT.zip

[RMT music Player for A7800]

I'm glad you like it.  I was already wondering if this routine would be useful for anyone,

 

You've probably made my music actually have a purpose now, so thanks.

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

Thanks I prefer the 3-track version but....what can ya do? I'm about finished with yet another 2-track version and it doesn't sound too bad but it grates on my nerves pretty quick....

 

We may be in luck vdub_bobby, this guy made a reader for raster tracker music on the 7800, (found it on these forums):

 

Original Thread

 

Another thread with questions about it

 

So maybe you could port it to the 2600?

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I'll jump in quickly....

 

C64 'Elite' - both tunes - Main Theme and Blue Danube

 

And defnitely the battle tune from the NES game 'Final Fantasy IIIj'

(actually the instruments you used in Metroid sould OK for most of

the tunes in this game - and there's lots of 'em, mostly little ones

which get repeated continuously)

 

Regards,

Mark

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You porting Elite or what?

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Heya, if anyone does any ports of arcade/console games to the Atari 8-bit I'm itching to do some music for the system.

 

This is my first NES>Atari song: Metroid

 

My email is [email protected]

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

Yeah I know, it sounds crappy now.

 

Stay with me here, I'm trying something new.....combining the notes by having different instruments for each 2 note chord. We shall see what happens....it's a pain in the ass though

 

EDIT: So far I'm having some luck this way, I've got about half of the song done....but it's all gonna be in vain unless I can get the author of raster tracker to give me a special export option.

[Midway Arcade -> Atari 2600 port II]

Satan's Hollow would be difficult as some of the configurations of birds have five or more independently-moving birds per scan line.  I really don't see any way to avoid having that dissolve into a flickerfest.

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You'd just have to work around this limitation, limiting the amount of birds on screen period... hence it wouldn't be arcade perfect...but what 2600 game was?

[Midway Arcade -> Atari 2600 port II]

Satans Hollow all the way! Kickman would be my second choice.

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

And here's a 2 track version of Brinstar I'm working on:

Metroid_Brinstar_2track.zip

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

Here's what that Chozo song asm code is supposed to sound like:

Metroid_Chozo.zip

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

My real opinion is to focus on gameplay, less on graphics. Acheiving both would be great, but even if the enemy sprites are monochrome, if the feel of the game is there, I'm satisfied.

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Yeah I liked the *second* screenshot the best BTW. It looks completely possible, even if you have to cheese out some stuff to make it happen. Pitfall 2 is a lot like Metroid if you think about it.

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

After examining it some more I realized that it's pretty bare-bones......All it contains are the tracks, note values and empty spaces.

 

I left some feedback at the authors site about maybe getting an export to A2600 option in the program so I've got my fingers crossed.

 

The other export options that exist right now do export the instruments, tempo, volumes....etc but they are native to the Atari 8-bit computers so that doesn't help us much.

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

Okay here we go, I looked at the ASM dump and it contains the tracks and note-data, but not the instruments or anything.....so I guess I'd have to write down what each instrument should sound like or something?

 

This is the Chozo song, the real short one. The first instrument/track is a pure-tone, any kind of lead sound that fades out would work, and the second instrument/track is a really short cutoff percussive sound.

 

(BTW, if you download Raster Tracker it comes with some Docs about this stuff which you'd probably understand more than me, I just learned how to use the program last night after I saw you guys talking about this project, been tracking songs for a long time though. I hope you have luck with this.)

 

Raster Tracker

Metroid_Chozo.zip

[NES -> Atari 2600 port]

Okay, thanks. I'll do one of the songs with 2 tracks, dump it, and post it here when I get a chance....that way you guys can look at it and see if it will be usable.